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JOB: Archivist for Discovery, Northern Arizona University

Nov

8

2018

From the announcement: Cline Library Special Collections and Archives at Northern Arizona University seeks a forward-thinking, collaborative, and innovative Archivist for Discovery. Reporting to the Head of Special Collections and Archives (SCA), the Archivist for Discovery will lead the unit’s efforts to reshape the way it arranges, describes, manages, provides access to, and facilitates discovery of ...

JOB: Scholarly Repository Librarian, University of Florida

Nov

8

2018

From the announcement: The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries seeks an innovative and user-focused professional to serve in a position of Scholarly Repository Librarian, a 12-month tenure track Library Faculty position in the Digital Partnerships & Strategies Department in the Technology and Support Services tenure home. The Scholarly Repository Librarian will provide leadership ...

POST: Hyperlocal Histories and Digital Collections

Oct

18

2018

Jim McGrath (Brown University) has posted an extended version of a talk he gave at the 2018 Digital Library Federation Forum to his website. The talk, entitled “Hyperlocal Histories and Digital Collections,” examines collecting, curating, and preserving local history in conjunction with digital projects. McGrath opens by describing how he became attached to the term ...

RESOURCE: A Grand-Challenges Based Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication and Information Science

Oct

18

2018

MIT hosted a Grand Challenges Summit in March 2018, and participants from that summit have released a white paper, “A Grand-Challenges Based Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication and Information Science.” From the introduction: A global and multidisciplinary community of stakeholders came together in March 2018 to identify, scope, and prioritize a common vision for specific ...

RESOURCE: Open Data, Grey Data, and Stewardship: Universities at the Privacy Frontier

Oct

18

2018

Christine L. Borgman (UCLA) has uploaded “Open Data, Grey Data, and Stewardship: Universities at the Privacy Frontier” to arXiv.org. From the abstract: As universities recognize the inherent value in the data they collect and hold, they encounter unforeseen challenges in stewarding those data in ways that balance accountability, transparency, and protection of privacy, academic freedom, ...

RESOURCE: Format Shift: Information Behavior and User Experience in the Academic E-book Environment

Oct

18

2018

The new issue of Reference & User Services Quarterly includes an article by Daniel G. Tracy (University of Illinois) entitled “Format Shift: Information Behavior and User Experience in the Academic E-book Environment.” From the abstract: This article seeks to understand information behavior in the context of the academic e-book user experience, shaped by a disparate set ...

EVENT: OASPA Webinar: The Economics and Sustainability of Open Access

Oct

18

2018

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is offering a series of free webinars, “The Economics and Sustainability of Open Access.” What are the economic implications of publishing research open access? What do economically efficient models for open access look like at the moment, how do they differ between different kinds of publishers, and what might ...

CFP: Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2019

Oct

18

2018

Digital Humanities at Michigan State University has released a call for proposals for the 4th Global Digital Humanities Symposium (or Global DH), to be held March 21-22, 2019 at Michigan State University. The 2019 symposium invites “work at the intersections of critical DH; race and ethnicity; feminism, intersectionality, and gender; and anti-colonial and postcolonial frameworks to participate.” ...

JOB: Digital Publishing and Copyright Librarian, University of Delaware

Oct

18

2018

From the announcement: The University of Delaware Library seeks a motivated, creative, and service-oriented professional to lead a new unit, Digital Scholarship and Research Services, which includes two vacant Digital Scholarship Librarian positions that are also being recruited at this time. The new unit will provide University faculty, researchers, and students with services for innovative ...

JOB: Digital Projects Librarian, Columbia University

Oct

18

2018

From the announcement: Columbia University Libraries (CUL) seeks an innovative and energetic Digital Projects librarian to coordinate and participate in technical project planning and implementation of significant, high-visibility digitization and digital publishing projects involving the Libraries’ rich research collections. As part of the Digital Library and Scholarly Technologies (DLST) group, the incumbent will work with ...

POST: Redesigning WOAH: Women of Ancient History

Sep

6

2018

Sarah Bond (University of Iowa) has written a blog post reflecting on “the ways in which digital humanities projects can be used to amplify, to visualize, and to give agency to underrepresented groups.” Bond asks “How can digital humanities contribute to social justice?,” and goes on to provide examples of DH projects that explicitly seek ...